ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
How does a TV newsroom decide what leads the show? At the Assignment Desk, we take you behind the scenes for a closer look at the day’s top stories and how our team is covering them. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, our assignment editors share the careful decisions and considerations that shape fair and balanced coverage of Taiwan for a global audience.
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Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
16 minutes
English
United States
54 episodes
since Oct. 8, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Reporter Tiffany Wong is in Palau, where she sat down with President Surangel Whipps Jr. and is covering the Pacific Islands Forum. Assignment Editor Chia Chang walks us through the historical significance of Taiwan’s participation and why it matters for the region.
We also look at w…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Stacy Yang takes the assignment editor’s chair this week for the penultimate episode of Assignment Desk, unpacking the political wrangling behind next year’s government spending plans. Plus: cash handouts fueled by a booming tech sector, how AI is reshaping the choices students make about their fut…
Yvonne Yang joins Charlie Storrar to look back on a week and a half’s coverage of the Han Kuang military exercises with a shout-out to our hardworking defense desk reporters. Taiwan’s digital affairs ministry responds to reports of a cyberattack in July by hackers using a publicly available AI mode…
Assignment editor Stacy Hsu joins Charlie Storrar to talk about the main focus of TaiwanPlus news coverage this week, the arrival of this year’s Han Kuang Exercise, Taiwan’s largest annual military drills. While this year’s drills have been touted as largely unscripted in order to better prepare th…
Yvonne Yang is back as this week’s assignment editor, with a look at how Taiwan has fared on the diplomatic rollercoaster this week; well, in terms of relations with Lithuania; with Papua New Guinea and Morocco…not so much. Plus, Taiwan gears up for this year’s edition of the Han Kuang military exe…
Assignment editor Stacy Hsu talks Charlie Storrar through the main happenings of the week, from tensions at the ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting following another clash between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea to the latest in Taiwan’s efforts to promote civil defense and reservist …
Stacy Hsu joins Andrew and Charlie on the Assignment Desk in what’s been a tricky week for Taiwan on the diplomatic front, with the new Lithuanian prime minister saying the 2021 decision to allow a Taiwanese trade office in Vilnius using the name Taiwan was “maybe too brave” and Papua New Guinea ma…
When a typhoon approaches Taiwan, how does a newsroom prepare? Assignment editor Yvonne Yang takes you behind the scenes of TaiwanPlus' coverage, from deciding where to deploy reporter Irene Lin for live reports to balancing the need to tell the story with keeping crews safe. Plus, a look at how pe…
From China's new ethnic unity law and Taiwan's new workplace anti-bullying protections to contactless metro payments, July 1 brought several significant changes. It also marked the 20th anniversary of the Taiwan Broadcasting System, of which TaiwanPlus is a part. Assignment editor Stacy Hsu joins u…
Assignment Editor Chia Chang takes us through coverage of the RIMPAC exercise now underway off Hawaii and Taiwan’s five-day combat readiness drills closer to home. Meanwhile, another kind of drill is being planned to help the public prepare for potentially deadly summer heat waves. And speaking of …
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